Isaiah 62:4 (WEB)
You will not be called Forsaken any more, nor will your land be called Desolate any more; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for the LORD delights in you, and your land will be married.
Catechism · 1
“God loves his people more than a bridegroom his beloved; his love will be victorious over even the worst infidelities and will extend to his most precious gift: "God so loved the world that he gave his only Son."” — Catechism footnote: Jn 3:16; cf. Hos 11:1; Is 49:14-15; 62 :4-5; Ezek 16; Hos 11.
Fathers and councils · 2
“I will call you also a God to Pharaoh and all the Egyptian and hostile power, and pillar and ground of the Church and will of God and light in the world, holding forth the word of life, and prop of the faith and resting place of the Spirit.” — editor's note: Isai. lxii. 4. (LXX.).
Read the whole comment“O my people, for mine thou art, though it be afar, because we are divinely joined together, and in a manner wholly different to the unions of carnal people; for bodies are united in place, but souls are fitted together by the Spirit.” — editor's note: Isa. lxii. 4.
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Cross-references · 4
Cited together in Catechism §219.
Cited together in Catechism §219.
Cited together in Catechism §219.
Cited together in Catechism §219.